Qin Bai was speechless. "That's the same as our theory, but we speculated that he secretly forged the military token. What about Bai? We need Bai's confession to confirm this. Otherwise, Lu Yan will also be blamed."
Qin Wan smiled and said, "He himself is to blame."
"I'll take you to see the Bai family for questioning." Qin Wan turned around and took Qin Bai to find Bai Wanyi. She didn't even glance at Lu Yan who came running over excitedly.
Lu Yan watched Qin Wan's back as she walked away. It would be a lie to say that he was not disappointed, but he also understood his own status and position. He turned around without saying a word and went to report to the commander-in-chief of the Left Army.
The commander-in-chief of the Left Army had heard from Qin Bai about the emperor's treatment of Lu Yan, and immediately ordered his men to arrest him.
Lu Yan didn't know how severe his punishment was, and continued to struggle: "There are wars everywhere now, Commander-in-Chief, please let me make meritorious contributions while I am serving my sentence!"
The Commander-in-Chief of the Left Army said, "Now that the Fifth Prince has been captured and the rebel army has surrendered, the bandits everywhere are no longer a concern. I advise you to return to the capital as soon as possible and apologize to His Majesty. You also need to go back and take care of your family affairs."
The title was taken away, the property was confiscated, and Old Madam Lu was still ill. There were more than a hundred people in the Lu family alone, so why didn't he go back and settle them down quickly?
Don't wait until all your concubines have run away and you have no money left before you regret it.
Upon hearing this, Lu Yan could only allow them to detain him. However, he was not completely clueless. He asked someone to inquire about the Lu family's situation. He heard that Old Madam Lu was seriously ill and was taken away by her eighth sister Lu Lingjiao, but was sent back not long after.
This is not the point. The point is that after the few boxes of dowry that Old Lady Lu had passed through Lu Lingjiao's hands, more than half of them were gone.
All that was left were Old Lady Lu's clothes.
The rest were all replaced with rags.
The second uncle of the Lu family brought a group of Lu family members to the door, but they couldn't even enter the gate of Chang'an Marquis Mansion.
The housekeeper of the Chang'an Marquis Mansion only said one sentence: "Who knows if you are blackmailing us?"
Lu Yan was worried about his grandmother, and he didn't hear what others said afterwards.
Lu Yan was imprisoned in the military camp, while the Fifth Prince and Bai Wanyi were imprisoned in the prefectural prison, where they could be more easily guarded.
Seeing that there was no one outside, Bai Wanyi took out a blade from the sole of her shoe and cut the rope on her feet. She then took out a wire from her hair and opened the lock on her wrist in a few seconds. Seeing this, the fifth prince next door quickly reached out and called to her, "Take me with you."
Bai Wanyi glanced at him and said, "You are already a prisoner. What good would it be for me to take you away?"
The Fifth Prince knew this woman wouldn't give up until she saw the rabbit, so he quickly said, "I have another hidden treasure. No one else knows about it. The gold and silver treasures left here are enough for us to eat and drink for a lifetime. You are also wanted now. Why don't we escape together?"
Bai Wanyi rolled his eyes and said, "I can't trust you. You should at least give me a deposit."
The Fifth Prince knew that if he didn't leave this time, returning to the capital would mean more than just losing his head. He steeled himself, pulled out a seal from his neck, and said, "With this seal, I can withdraw 200,000 taels of silver from the largest bank in the Great Zhou. Now you're not afraid that I'll run away, are you?"
Bai Wanyi's eyes sparkled as he snatched the seal and put it in his arms before he opened the lock on the fifth prince's hand.
She got the advantage and acted cute: "Then I will believe what you say for now."
The Fifth Prince flexed his wrists, watching Bai Wanyi unlock the prison door, and said, "Don't be like me, otherwise..."
Bai Wanyi rolled his eyes at him. "You've been threatening me with this all along. How could I not know this? Don't worry. If I go back now, I might have a chance of survival. If you tell anyone about my affairs, even eight hundred lives wouldn't be enough to compensate you."
Bai Wanyi really couldn't have imagined that her secret would be known by the Fifth Prince and used to threaten her!
In fact, it was not the Fourth Prince's idea that led Bai Wanyi to escape from the capital, but the Fifth Prince's.
The fifth prince secretly met with the fourth prince in the sky prison and asked him if he was willing.
How could the Fourth Prince be willing to accept this? He struck a deal with the Fifth Prince to split Great Zhou into two, with Zhengnan Prefecture as the boundary. The north, including Zhengnan Prefecture, belonged to the Fourth Prince, while the south belonged to the Fifth Prince.
The Fourth Prince has military orders, and the Fifth Prince has soldiers. He has been making preparations in various places over the past year and has already made preparations.
The Fourth Prince originally wanted to leave Bai Wanyi behind. After all, the fewer people who knew about this, the safer it would be.
The fifth prince said to take her with him.
The Fourth Prince was unwilling to do so. "Bai is very difficult to control. There's no need to go through her on such a major matter. If you need explosives, I have plenty."
The fifth prince said, "You are the one who cannot control her. I have her secret. If I tell anyone, my father will not tolerate him, and neither will you. And even less will the world tolerate her."
The Fourth Prince narrowed his eyes slightly. "You threaten her with this secret. Does that mean she will completely side with you in the future?"
The Fifth Prince said, "This isn't really a secret. I can tell you, as long as you don't mind. After all, Ping'er is your son. If you can't tolerate her in the future, you can make this matter public and have her killed."
The Fourth Prince became curious: "What is the secret?"
The Fifth Prince said, "Explosives are extremely unstable. Didn't they explode several times when you were developing them?"
The Fourth Prince nodded. "It was a small-scale incident, so there were no casualties."
"Guess how many people were killed when Marquis Pingyang and the Bai family developed explosives?" The fifth prince's eyes flashed with a faint light.
The Fourth Prince shook his head. If he were asked to guess, it must have been a very tragic situation, but he couldn't guess.
The Fifth Prince raised a finger and said, "An entire village was razed to the ground."
The Fourth Prince gasped, "Razured to the ground?"
"Yes, no one survived." The Fifth Prince sighed and said, "What a coincidence! I recently ran into a merchant from the Western Regions. During our casual conversation, I learned that he had passed by that village and saw the explosion. Later, it was Pingyang Hou and the Bai family who went to deal with the matter."
"That village was far away from the others, and no one knew about it being razed to the ground. He originally thought it was a punishment from heaven caused by someone in the village doing evil, and it has been passed down in the Western Regions as a myth ever since."
"One year later, he encountered the Marquis of Pingyang and the Bai family arguing in Fengyang. He was a Westerner passing by, and no one thought he could understand the official language of the Great Zhou. He listened for a while and finally learned that the village was destroyed by their explosives, not some kind of divine punishment."
The Fourth Prince was extremely shocked: "Can explosives be so powerful?"
The fifth prince looked at him sneerfully: "You make explosives, don't tell me you don't know the power of these explosives."
The Fourth Prince shook his head. He had no idea that explosives could be so powerful. "I only know they can blow people to pieces, but how much explosives are needed to raze an entire village to the ground?"
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